Why does `df` lie about free space

Kirk Strauser kirk at strauser.com
Wed Mar 17 09:52:26 PST 2004


At 2004-03-17T06:59:39Z, Kyryll A Mirnenko <mirya at ukrpost.net> writes:

>   Thanks, thats what I want. So that means nobody but root can write to
>   that preserved (with `tunefs -m`) space? How can I allow more users to
>   do that?

Buy more disk.  Seriously.  Don't mess with this value unless you have a
very specific reason to do so, such as if you're developing filesystem
code.  Repeat: leave it alone and buy more disk.
-- 
Kirk Strauser

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